In the video, the woman stands up and begins pulling a baby out from underneath her clothes while her three-year-old son looks on from the adjacent seat.

The woman, 39-year-old Wang Liying, was on the 666 bus on her way to the hospital for a checkup when her stomach suddenly began hurting, she told a reporter afterward. It was 8 o'clock Wednesday morning, and she wasn't expecting the baby to appear for another five days at least. But so it did, and as the other passengers realized what was happening, they notified the bus driver, came over to assist the woman, and unanimously decided that the bus driver should head toward the hospital.

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